Quotes About Openness

Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it.

We are totally open kimono with regulators.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

I'm very open to new things, challenging myself and putting myself in tough environments.

I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

When I land in a new country, I'm a tourist. I can't become a local in one day.

I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

My new toy is not knowing, because it's very creative. I'm the guy who likes to get in the car and get lost.

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.